New York....Day 1

WOW. New york is just like the movies! Busy, loud, fast, dirty. You name it Manhattan has got it! Today we began our morning with a conversation with 2 great women. Both Jewish one of them was familiar with the "Mormons" and the other knew nothing. We talked about temples, missionaries, marriage (they were SHOCKED when they found out that we were so young and already had 3 kids), gays (my heart really started to pound at this point of the conversation. thankfully Mike handled this beautifully). It was a good conversation and opened my eyes to what missionaries encounter daily. It also made me realize that I need to have a better way to articulate what I believe so that I can share it with others without looking like a fool :) For lunch we somehow appeared so dumb that they let us into a"buyers" only reception and got a yummy FREE lunch. We also experienced our first "whined and dined" treatment. I think I could get used to these "business" trips. They offered us whine and we declined of course and ordered a Sprite and Diet Coke instead. I almost asked if I could still drink it out of the wine glass. Seriously, some of the fun in drinking has got to be those huge glasses! We hit Time Square and rounded out the evening flying down a one-way street with a CRAZY cab driver.

Last but not least while I was talking to Brynlee on the phone she asked, "Mommy, are you still on the plane?" Oh, I love my girls!